Roger Bangerter
13/08/2012, 13:55
Invited talk
Roger O. Bangerter
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley, California, 94720, USA
During the last 38 years researchers have suggested and evaluated a large number of target designs for heavy ion inertial fusion. These target designs fall into a number of general categories including:
1. Direct ignition (or fast ignition) designs originally suggested by A. W. Maschke
2. ...
Max Tabak
(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
13/08/2012, 14:20
Invited talk
Max Tabak
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
In this talk I shall describe the distributed radiator target and its several variants—the hybrid design and the close-coupled target. This target was used in the Robust Point Design reactor scenario requiring about 6MJ of 3.5-4GeV Pb ions and yielding about 400 MJ. Several design issues shall be discussed: why a radiation driven target;...
Enrique Henestroza
13/08/2012, 14:45
Invited talk
E. Henestroza and B.G. Logan
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California, 94720, USA
A new inertial-fusion target configuration, the X-target, using one-sided axial illumination has been explored [1]. This class of target uses annular and solid-profile heavy ion beams to compress and ignite deuterium-tritium (DT) fuel that fills the interior of metal cases that have...
S. Kawataa
(Utsunomiya University)
13/08/2012, 15:10
Invited talk
S. Kawata, T. Kurosaki, K. Noguchi, S. Koseki, D. Barada, Y.Y. Ma (1); A. I. Ogoyski (2); J.J. Barnard and B.G. Logan (3)
(1) Utsunomiya University, 7-1-2 Yohtoh, Utsunomiya 321-8585, Japan
(2) Varna Technical University, Varna 9010, Bulgaria
(3) Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. and Virtual National Lab. for Heavy Ion Fusion, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
In the paper a dynamic...
Matt Terry
(Los Alamos National Laboratory)
13/08/2012, 15:50
Invited talk
The deeply penetrating nature of heavy ion beams makes for unique opportunities in the design of ICF targets. We describe a class of targets that take advantage the long range and Bragg peak-like deposition profile of to drive an implosion contained within a dense, high-Z tamper. The The targets consist of spherical shells of DT ice, plastic, and a thin gold tamper. The design uses two...
M. Murakami
(Institute of Laser Enginering)
13/08/2012, 16:15
Invited talk
M. Murakami
Institute of Laser Enginering, Osaka University
Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
In impact ignition scheme, a portion of the fuel (the impactor) is accelerated to a super-high velocity beyond 108 cm/s, compressed by spherical convergence, and collided with a precompressed main fuel. The collision generates strong shock waves in both the impactor and the main fuel. Since the...
Richard More
(Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
13/08/2012, 16:40
Invited talk
Richard M. More (1,2)
(1) HIFS-VNL, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 1 Cyclotron Road,
Berkeley, CA
(2) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, East Avenue, Livermore, CA
A molecular dynamics (MD) particle simulation code has been developed to study inertial fusion ignition physics including effects of a non-Maxwellian ion velocity distribution. 10,000 DT ions at...
